Improvements in vSphere 5 Update Manager makes installation of 3rd party host extensions easier than ever before, no more "esxupdate” or “vihostupdate” in CLI required. Here is example how you can deploy latest PowerPath/VE with Update Manager 5.0 to your brand new vSphere 5 cluster. Download latest PowerPath/VE bundle zip and unzip it, in that ...

There has been talks in VMware Communities and in some blog comments that vCenter Update Manager 4.1 has dropped support for SQL Server 2008 Standard so you would need SQL Server Enterprise edition instead. If you take a look at VMware vCenter Update Manager page on vSphere Compatibility Matrix released on 13th of July, SQL ...